Tropical and sub-tropical products are constantly increasing in popularity in the United States, which is able to produce them to so small an extent that although the classes included in this table comprise nearly forty per cent of the total United States imports for the year, there are but two on which duty is levied. The following table shows the amount and value of tropical products imported into the United States during the year ended June 30, 1913:-- ------------------------+--------------------+-------------- Products | Amount | Value ------------------------+--------------------+-------------- | | Cocoa | 140,039,172 lb. | $17,389,042 Coffee | 863,130,757 lb. | 118,963,209 Fibres | 407,098 T. | 49,075,659 Manufactures of fibres | ---- | 76,972,416 Fruits and nuts | ---- | 42,622,653 Goatskins | 45,729,000 T. | 24,790,417 Gums of various kinds | ---- | 15,138,895 Rubber | 214,000,000 lb. | 101,333,158 Matting | ---- | 1,651,813 Vegetable oils | ---- | 38,112,883 Silk, unmanufactured | ---- | 84,914,717 Spices | 65,225,401 lb. | 6,187,136 Sugar | 4,740,041,488 lb. | 103,639,823 Tea | 94,812,800 lb. | 17,433,688 Leaf tobacco | 67,454,745 lb. | 35,919,079 Manufactured tobacco | ---- | 6,577,403 Cabinet woods | ---- | 8,880,000 Rattans and reeds | ---- | 1,800,000 | +-------------- | | $751,401,991 ------------------------+--------------------+-------------- The balance of trade with the more important countries from which we get these products is heavily against us, as is shown by the following table in which I have included Switzerland, not because we get tropical or sub-tropical products from that country, but because it furnishes us embroideries, etc., which could be very cheaply produced in the Philippines. The figures are for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1913:--